Women and Religion All of the major world religions deprecate women to some degree. This page archives texts which relate specifically to women and religion from a female perspective. This includes historic feminist texts on the topic, texts about Goddess-oriented sprituality and Amazons, as well as texts from otherwise male-dominated religions in the same vein. As might be expected, there are far […]
Wisdom of the East This page spotlights the books in the series The Wisdom of the East, most of which were published in the first two decades of the twentieth century under the editorship of L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia. We are currently attempting a systematic inventory of the entire series. Baha’i The Splendour of God […]
Zoroastrianism The Zend-Avesta Pahlavi Texts Links Zoroastrianism, in spite of its small current number of adherents, has played a huge role in the study of comparative religion. Not only was it a cohort of the ancient Vedic Hinduism, but also had a huge influence on the development of Judaism and Christianity. This part of the site has […]
The Upanishads Upanishads, Part One (SBE 1) Upanishads, Part Two (SBE 15) The Sacred Books of the East started off with the Max Müller translation of the Upanishads; complete e-texts of these key works are available here. This edition contains a dozen of the most important Upanishads, which are fundamental texts of Hinduism.
Hinduism Vedas Upanishads Puranas Other Primary Texts Epics Mahabharata Ramayana Bhagavad Gita Vedanta Later texts Modern books The Vedas There are four Vedas, the Rig Veda, Sama Veda, Yajur Veda and Atharva Veda. The Vedas are the primary texts of Hinduism. They also had a vast influence on Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism. Traditionally the text of the Vedas was coeval with the universe. Scholars […]
Copyrights This page is a ‘plain English’ explanation of the copyright issues at this site. This can be considered a continuation of the Terms of Service file. Using public domain files at this site Most of the files at this site are in the public domain in the United States. This is because they were originally printed […]
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